Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
U.S. Policymakers Mull Creation of Domestic Intelligence Agency
October 22nd, 2008Via: CNN: The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles. Canada has CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency? On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of […]
Cybercrime Supersite Was FBI Honeypot
October 14th, 2008Via: Wired: DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI cybercrime agent for the last two years, until its voluntary shutdown earlier this month, according to documents unearthed by a German radio network. Reports from the German national police obtained by […]
New Homeland Security Magic 8 Ball Removes Terrorists Fast! Now with 100% More WTF?
September 24th, 2008“Sorry, officer, I’ve been reading Cryptogon for so many years I thought the twitching would have stopped by now.” Via: Fox News: Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or […]
U.N. Agency Eyes Curbs on Internet Anonymity
September 14th, 2008The NSA and the Chinese government are working together, through the U.N., to draft plans for systems that would enable all Internet sessions to be authoritatively traced back to their origins. Man, if this one doesn’t get your tinfoil in a knot, nothing will. If you want to know what anonymous on the Internet actually […]
Secret Assassination Program is Key in Iraq, Woodward Says
September 10th, 2008Oh sure, Bob. During the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program ran from 1967 through the Tet Offensive and until the Americans fled Vietnam. I seriously doubt that an assassination program is working in Iraq. More likely, the cash bribes that the U.S. has been paying to insurgents to stay home, or kill their religious enemies […]
RNC 8 Charged with “Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism”
September 5th, 2008Via: Indymedia: In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism. Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael […]
France: “The Electronic Bastille Is Upon Us”
September 5th, 2008Via: MSNBC / Reuters: “The Edvige database has no place in a democracy,” wrote Michel Pezet, a lawyer and former member of a body charged with protecting French citizens from electronic prying, in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper Le Monde. “There is nothing in the decree that sets limits or a framework. Whether the database […]
British Spy Helped Speed Up USSR’s Atomic Bomb Program
September 3rd, 2008Via: Telegraph: Norwood, a committed Communist who began spying for Moscow in the 1930s, handed over technical information which provided Russian scientists with a crucial breakthrough. Her contribution allowed them to overcome problems, which blocked the development of their nuclear reactors and led directly to the USSR exploding its bomb in 1949 – years earlier […]
Pre-Emeptive Arrests of Peace Protesters in Minneapolis
August 31st, 2008Via: Salon: Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched […]
Barack Obama Assassination Plot?
August 26th, 2008Reminds me of Jane Greenhow and her friends. The feds are already saying hinting that there’s nothing to see here. That’s almost certainly because the feds are involved—in a COINTEL capacity—with this crew. Via: Telegraph: One of the group said he was “going to shoot Obama”, who is in Denver, Colorado, for the Democratic National […]
